Kimber Berry & Kristina Faragher

Kimber Berry

Growing up in Los Angeles and being surrounded by over the top advertising and the glitz of Hollywood instilled a love of illusion. A desire to explore the psychological experience of living in a society so bombarded with visual noise and simulated environments. My installations and paintings interlace, overlap and converge upon themselves in much the same manner of existing in multiple environments at once. I use the fluidity of paint and the brush stroke as a narrative tool to recreate the psychological compression of stimuli found in our society.

I am moved by the desire to create simulated environments in which the observer can psychologically step within, creating an experience that engages the viewer on a deeper level. Moving away from the rigid boundaries of painting distinct with the edge of canvas, I'm creating a fluid existence that allows my art to melt into, embed, connect and disconnect, through the aspiration to fully engage a wall- essentially, becoming part of the space. My paintings and installations exist in the psychological space between object and life, reality and illusion.

---Kimber Berry 2009

Kristina Faragher

Kristina Faragher received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2001. Through video and installation, Faragher enters into the world of visual sensuality, with the body at the center of her explorations.

Kristina Faragher combines recognizable imagery and layered sound with abstract passages and slowed movement to create short video meditations on human presence in relationship to both urban and natural environments. Direct reference to meaning is denied as viewers explore layers of possibility and attempt to piece together narrative elements. Hand-held motion and rough edits serve to reinforce corporeal reality and position the artist at the center of an exchange between mediated image and truth.

Faragher’s solo and group projects have been exhibited at: the Autry National Center, the REDCAT Theater, Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico Highways Performance Space, Sweeney Art Gallery at U.C. Riverside, and The Museum of Modern Fine Art in Minsk,Belarus.

Faragher’s videos have been presented on several billboards throughout Los Angeles as part of LA Freewaves Ninth Annual International MediaFestival. Her work was recently presented at both the Fifth and Sixth Festival International de la Image in Colombia, South America, sponsored by UNESCO Digiarts.

Her work is presently being exhibited at The Oakland Museum in Oakland as part of the traveling exhibit"Yosemite: Art of an American Icon". Publications include: The Smithsonian Institute’s Archives of American Art and Extensions: Online Journal of Embodied Technology at UCLA.

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